The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available online. This number, which will be the last in its current format, contains its usual mix of richly-illustrated reviews and essays relating to all things Beckett. Beckett’s biographer James Knowlson offers a new and fascinating insight into the life of the author’s wife Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil;…
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Furthering its commitment to enhance opportunities for those in their early stages of Beckett scholarship, the Samuel Beckett Society has announced a new initiative to promote the work of emerging scholars and researchers. The full text of the board’s statement reads: The executive board of the Samuel Beckett Society and the editor of The Beckett Circle seek…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available to all members. A particularly full and diverse issue features a full-length interview with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha, as well as another with documentary-maker Jacob Adams. James Knowlson provides a beautifully detailed reading of Beckett’s close friend Ethna MacCarthy’s poetry and personality. There are reports…
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The latest issue of the Beckett Circle, Autumn 2023, is now available to all members of the Samuel Beckett Society. Included are interviews with playwrights Hanah Khallil and Jen Barclay, an unpublished interview by Beckett biographer James Knowlson’s archive, a guide to the upcoming Society Annual conference (which will be held on-line and is free…
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Volume 44 Issue 1 of the Beckett Circle, the publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, is now live and available to all Society members here. A packed issue contains a fascianting long-read as Katherine Weiss discusses the process undertaken by well-known television and stage actor Monica Horan and director Rob Weiner as they developed a…
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A reminder to existing members that they need to renew their membership to continue to help in the work of the society and to access The Beckett Circle and other members’ material. We also hope that all of those interested in the work of the author would consider joining us in broadening the dialogue on…
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The latest edition of The Beckett Circle features a commentary piece by renowned critic Angela Moorjani on the issues surrounding gender cross-casting in Beckett’s productions, prompted by Eleanor Green’s excellent piece in our last issue. Doug Atkinson provides a thoughtful review essay on the completion of Gare St Lazare’s mammoth engagement with How it is…
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While we struggle with the seemingly-unending pandemic, the Beckett community has been continuing to perform, come together (occasionally) and write as best it can. In this issue, we review productions of Waiting for Godot in the claustrophobic confines of Zoom, to Happy Days in a limestone field on a remote island. Lisa Dwan talks about…
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This issue once again reflects the COVID restricted nature of our times. Performances are on-line but show signs of adapting to the restrictions of form. We feature reviews of five different approaches to the problem and interview actor Marty Rea about his experience in the live broadcast of Happy Days. New Beckett Society President, Laura…
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Inside this issue The second issue of the Beckett Circle to be posted in the time of pandemic bears the scars of the community’s endurance of uncertainty and loss. As performance, in its normal sense has disappeared, we hear from practitioners Sarah Jane Scaife and Cathal Quinn about their attempts to overcome the restricted environment.…
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